School bullying must be stopped

The boy cut the tip of his own tongue after being threatened by five fellow students.

BULLYING in schools is wrong. It is bad especially when children wind up hurt or even killed. It's something I've always felt very strongly about, and this is why the death of 13-year-old Daniel Fitzpatrick in New York hit home when news broke of it after he committed suicide on August 11.

It hit strongly because I feel it's only a matter of time before something similar emerges here in Malaysia, and this was clear to me when I read what Fitzpatrick was bullied about - his weight and his grades. As it stands, we've already seen one rather graphic case this year when a Year Two student was bullied into cutting off part of his own tongue in April.